Search Results - "Osmanski, Austin"
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Chiropterans Are a Hotspot for Horizontal Transfer of DNA Transposons in Mammalia
Published in Molecular biology and evolution (02-05-2023)“…Abstract Horizontal transfer of transposable elements (TEs) is an important mechanism contributing to genetic diversity and innovation. Bats (order Chiroptera)…”
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Insights into mammalian TE diversity through the curation of 248 genome assemblies
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (28-04-2023)“…We examined transposable element (TE) content of 248 placental mammal genome assemblies, the largest de novo TE curation effort in eukaryotes to date. We found…”
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Transposable Elements in Bats Show Differential Accumulation Patterns Determined by Class and Functionality
Published in Life (Basel, Switzerland) (04-08-2022)“…Bat genomes are characterized by a diverse transposable element (TE) repertoire. In particular, the genomes of members of the family Vespertilionidae contain…”
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A High-Quality Reference Genome Assembly of the Saltwater Crocodile, Crocodylus porosus, Reveals Patterns of Selection in Crocodylidae
Published in Genome biology and evolution (01-01-2020)“…Abstract Crocodilians are an economically, culturally, and biologically important group. To improve researchers’ ability to study genome structure, evolution,…”
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Simultaneous TE Analysis of 19 Heliconiine Butterflies Yields Novel Insights into Rapid TE-Based Genome Diversification and Multiple SINE Births and Deaths
Published in Genome biology and evolution (01-08-2019)“…Abstract Transposable elements (TEs) play major roles in the evolution of genome structure and function. However, because of their repetitive nature, they are…”
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Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (28-04-2023)“…Zoonomia is the largest comparative genomics resource for mammals produced to date. By aligning genomes for 240 species, we identify bases that, when mutated,…”
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Evolution of the ancestral mammalian karyotype and syntenic regions
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-10-2022)“…Decrypting the rearrangements that drive mammalian chromosome evolution is critical to understanding the molecular bases of speciation, adaptation, and disease…”
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A genomic timescale for placental mammal evolution
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (28-04-2023)“…The precise pattern and timing of speciation events that gave rise to all living placental mammals remain controversial. We provide a comprehensive…”
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Integrating gene annotation with orthology inference at scale
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (28-04-2023)“…Annotating coding genes and inferring orthologs are two classical challenges in genomics and evolutionary biology that have traditionally been approached…”
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Mammalian evolution of human cis-regulatory elements and transcription factor binding sites
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (28-04-2023)“…Understanding the regulatory landscape of the human genome is a long-standing objective of modern biology. Using the reference-free alignment across 241…”
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The contribution of historical processes to contemporary extinction risk in placental mammals
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (28-04-2023)“…Species persistence can be influenced by the amount, type, and distribution of diversity across the genome, suggesting a potential relationship between…”
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Relating enhancer genetic variation across mammals to complex phenotypes using machine learning
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (28-04-2023)“…Protein-coding differences between species often fail to explain phenotypic diversity, suggesting the involvement of genomic elements that regulate gene…”
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Three-dimensional genome rewiring in loci with human accelerated regions
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (28-04-2023)“…Human accelerated regions (HARs) are conserved genomic loci that evolved at an accelerated rate in the human lineage and may underlie human-specific traits. We…”
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Leveraging base-pair mammalian constraint to understand genetic variation and human disease
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (28-04-2023)“…Thousands of genomic regions have been associated with heritable human diseases, but attempts to elucidate biological mechanisms are impeded by an inability to…”
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The functional and evolutionary impacts of human-specific deletions in conserved elements
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (28-04-2023)“…Conserved genomic sequences disrupted in humans may underlie uniquely human phenotypic traits. We identified and characterized 10,032 human-specific conserved…”
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Vocal learning-associated convergent evolution in mammalian proteins and regulatory elements
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (29-03-2024)“…Vocal production learning ("vocal learning") is a convergently evolved trait in vertebrates. To identify brain genomic elements associated with mammalian vocal…”
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Comparative genomics of Balto, a famous historic dog, captures lost diversity of 1920s sled dogs
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (28-04-2023)“…We reconstruct the phenotype of Balto, the heroic sled dog renowned for transporting diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925, using evolutionary…”
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Using evolutionary constraint to define novel candidate driver genes in medulloblastoma
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (15-08-2023)“…Current knowledge of cancer genomics remains biased against noncoding mutations. To systematically search for regulatory noncoding mutations, we assessed…”
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